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Autore: |
Brooks Kinitra Dechaun
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Titolo: |
Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks
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Pubblicazione: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] |
©2018 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
Disciplina: | 823/.08738099287 |
Soggetto topico: | Horror in literature |
African American women authors | |
Women authors, Black - History and criticism | |
Feminist theory | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | BrooksKinitra |
Note generali: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Searching for Sycorax: black women and horror -- The importance of neglected intersections: characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts -- Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability -- Black women writing fluid fiction: an open challenge to genre normativity -- Folkloric horror: a new way of reading black women's creative horror -- Conclusion Sycorax's power of revision: reconstructing black women's counter-narratives -- Appendix: creative work summary. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | Searching for Sycorax ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8135-8464-7 |
0-8135-8463-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910466407003321 |
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